CHICAGO :)

hey guys, im back again :) surprisingly im blogging again in such a short duration of time, anyhow whilst waiting for my laundry i figured might as well just blog about my trip while i can still remember the fine details! mwehehe..and yes my loves, im back from chicago the windy city @"@ it was awesome and being a tourist, we did the tourisy stuff, but the thing we actually did most was shop! i know u're like woot! all the way just to shop, we did tour around and stuff..walk walk..subway hopping and etc etc.. :) but i enjoyed shopping the most, you should see the bags of clothes in the car on our way home! haha too bad i dont have a picture.

anyhow day ONE .. we departed from beloved menomonie at about 8.45am and we planned to drop by Madison which is Wisconsin's capital for abit, which we did after about 3 and a half hour of ride. We didn't really do much there though, but at least we have been there for now, and on our way from Madison to Chicago, we grabbed subway for lunch and finally we reached Chicago in another maybe 3 hours or so. But unforunately we didn't do much on the day we arrived as it was raining the whole day and also there was this thankgiving traffic rush home and stuff.. but fortunately for us there was a mall next to the inn we were staying in which was quite big too, and as usual being tourist.. we went window shopping! haha... note it's only window okay! and evetually we went to a japanese supermarket nearby to have our dinner :) feels so good to have asian food nyum nyum.. especially Jap, i adore Jap!

Day TWO.. thanksgiving day and we had planned before hand that we were going downtown chicago for the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade which started at like 8am. The train ride between our train station near our inn and to Chicago was like 45mins! i know..it was further than expected but oh well! anyhow woke up at 6.50am..woke the rest of the sleepy heads up, went down grabbed breakfast and soon after we were heading off! We got lost a little bit but soon we found ourselves with others watching the parade. Mwehehehe nothing really special la okay! But it's the experience that matters most kan! Then our next stop was the Field Museum and the Aquarium :) don't ask me why, prolly it's a way to kill time and also to do the tourisy stuff! so it was snowing quite heavily then and that sucks! But we made our way, we bought a city pass which includes tickets to like 5 top attractions and we went for only 4 which cost 50 dollars..but it was kindda waste of money cause we didn't even read what was on it we just looked and browse and couldnt wait for it to end, im not going to do that AGAIN in New York..waste my 50 dollars nyeeehhh! but of course it can't be compared to those museums and stuff back home, the one's here are very updated, well kept and you name it, but it doesn't fascinate people my age! For dinner we wanted to have Chicago's well known deep dish pizza but since it was thanksgiving alot of places were not open at all! we went all the way back to the area where the shop was but to no avail :( and then it struck us to go to Chinatown..woohoo! i was so happy when i got down the subway! cause it smelt like fooooood! nyummm..and after walking one end to the other end happily we have decided to settle on a restaurant called "Penang"! which was obviously Malaysian cuisine..haha prices can't be comparable =P but i was a happy and contented kid soon after as we headed back to the train station, which we missed our train and had to wait another hour urgh!

Day THREE since it was thanksgiving, there is Black Friday where shopping malls would open at 12am because it's a tradition for americans to shop the day after thankgiving and there we were..tired from whole day of walking and didnt even sleep, anticipated for black friday shopping! NYEH! we left our inn at 11.30pm of day TWO and only managed to touch foot on the floor of the mall at 3.30am, you know why..because all the others were anticipating this shopping day like us and we were stuck in a damn jam in the car for 3 hours and in THREE damn miles okay! i will NEVER EVER go shopping at that time EVER again! Moreover, i was told that things were going to be damn cheap..but obviously i was quite disappointed as i only managed to get one Tommy Hilfiger tee for myself :( sad sad sad! and we were done by 7.30am and back to the inn at 8am,grabbed breakfast and went to sleep HAHA till 11.30am and then headed downtown again :) finished off the other two attractions, walked around downtown..took pictures and did tourisy stuff. Finally we managed to settle for our deep dish pizza..which was in fact nothing fantastic haha it's only damn thick lar! will post pictures up once i have the time to upload, maybe after new york okay? and then the train backkkkk...and finally slept at like 1.45am despite all the sleep debts

Day FOUR the day we were departing..and to our dismay, we were awoken from our deep sleep we were catching up with by a fire alarm WTF, 2nd in the month for me! crap.....anyhow we planned to go back to the Jap supermarket grab some stuff back home, and have sushi and Jap food for lunch which we did..and also after that we grabbed Krispy Kreme, my long awaited craving ever since HK! but unfortunately the flavor i adore in HK isn't available here but i shall wait for next year till i go back to HK :) buy anyhow bought 2 dozens of donuts to share within us..departed Chicago at about 3.30pm and we were planning to stop by Wisconsin Dells which had another mall to do our last shopping..and we arrived there about 6pm..and shopped till like 9pm! haha because there was so much to buy, in fact we bought more than black friday! wooohoooo..we were saying okay we shall meet at 7.30pm in the entrance but mana tau all tak jumpa haha eventually departed at 9pm when the mall closes hahaha! the car was stuffed with shopping bags..woot! i bought alot myself :) nyeheehe! anyhow..we reached menomonie another 3 hours later and went to walmart grabbed our necessities and went back home :) the happiest times were the shopping timesss...mwehehehe!

So in total i bought like 5 tommy tops, 1 tommy shorts, 1 abercrombie long pants, 1 hollister skirt, 1 Levi's shorts, 1 old navy jeans, 1 old navy fleece, and 1 gap fleece hoodie.. crappily alot! CRAP! i almost freaked myself when i calculated the amount *faints* anyhow at least im happy..haha got to work more next semester *sweat drop* that's all for now peeps, pictures later :)

love,moon

to all my dear friends : )

i know it has been a long time, since the last blog post and stuff, and with all the'im overseas and that i should blog more to update bout my evolving life here' lol but i really sometimes either have no mood OR have no time (most of the time). besides, i really dont know what to blog about when i eant to blog because its been such a long time since the last post, i just kind of lost track with things that has been evolving around me.

anyhow..

this is pretty much the lastest of the latest i have on myself mwehehe despite the fact that i have a video camera, i dont really lug it around like the convenience of the camera, thus there is loss of cam whorings and etc etc, which u can do with the cameras, teehee! it was on 'international dinner' where we were suppose to dress traditionally, in fact i look more typical Chinese than signfying being a Malaysian which i should be, maybe next year =) and these 3 girls are 3 of my Hong Kong girlfriends whom we hang around each other most of the time together with the boys. i really dont think i have actually gained any weight or anything (not yet at the moment) and besides, i dont have like an uber huge appetite yet* i dont know what its going to be like when it gets way colder.

for your information, the average daily temperature here is like -2 to 0 in the mornings and towards the afternoon at most it could get would be a 3 or 4 (how fun!) *not... it's not freaking cold but heck if u dont have enough clothes, u wouldnt want to imagine how its going to be like. since i am not an american being raised up in wisconsin, i have the privellage of wearing heaps of layers and not look weird, actually thats not the case, the people here probably can't even differentiate me (an international student) from a Hmong who looks like chinese too but they are like american bred like Asian Americans because i speak 'good' english..heh funny..so by speaking good english they think i am Hmong, *sighs!

thanksgiving break starts in 3 days on the 21st =) and that 5 days of holiday which i am going to spend 4/5 of it in Chicago! and then in December there's our New York, Boston and Washington excursion *shit im going to be super broke like seriously! but the 8 of us, (all my brother's housemates, one of his brothers and the 4 girls on top in the picture) will be counting down our brand new year in TIMES SQUARE wooooot! it's like once in a lifetime seriously =) welcoming the year 2008! woohoo.. kay kay enough of that... somehow i dont think im looking forward towards January and February because its the coldest month, and apparently an american colleague of mine was saying 'well we havent have any cases of someone dying from the cold' *coughs coughs.. well it can get up to -30, like when my brother was here this year, and seriously thats no fun! like right now is just nice, when it gets colder i'd probably hibernate (that explains why i chose 2 online courses for next semester out of 5)

just the other day i took out my passport and was flipping through the pages, and took out my airticket and looking at it, just the feeling of having to touch it, bringing my imagination into life makes me happy! i'm looking forward to coming back next year eventhough now another week later than scheculed as i am going to be in Hong Kong again for a week due to some complications in my transits and stuff, so i have decided to stay there for a week! woohoo Hong Kong i like =) anyway back to hitting my book, exam tomorrow *ughs! *stomps off.. take care for now peeps~

moon